University of Michigan to Repatriate Native American Human Remains Recovered from Harland Site in Sanilac County, Michigan
September 24, 2026
September 24, 2026
WASHINGTON, Sept. 24 (TNSFR) -- The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, has completed an inventory of human remains representing one Native American individual and one associated funerary object and determined a connection with 1 of 13 Native American tribes.
The remains and a lot of glass beads were removed in 1958 from the Harland site in Sanilac County, Michigan, during excavation activities connected to a gravel pit. Diagnostic artifacts date the site to the Early Historic period . . .
The remains and a lot of glass beads were removed in 1958 from the Harland site in Sanilac County, Michigan, during excavation activities connected to a gravel pit. Diagnostic artifacts date the site to the Early Historic period . . .